An audio conversion app (also known as an audio converter)
transcodes one
audio file format
An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, ofte ...
into another; for example, from
FLAC into
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...
. It may allow selection of encoding parameters for each of the output file to optimize its quality and size. An audio converter uses at least two sets of
audio codecs
An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software, an audio codec is a computer program implementing an algorithm that compresses and decompres ...
to decode the source file format and to encode the destination file.
Audio converters include:
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AIMP
AIMP (Artem Izmaylov Media Player) is a freeware Audio player (software), audio player for Windows and Android (operating system), Android, originally developed by Russian developer Artem Izmaylov ( rus, Артём Измайлов, Artyom Izmajlo ...
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Audacity
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Brasero
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CDex
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Exact Audio Copy
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FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing of vid ...
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FL Studio
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foobar2000
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FormatFactory
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Freemake Audio Converter
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Free Studio
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fre:ac
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iTunes
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k3b
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MediaCoder
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MediaHuman Audio Converter
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MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows and Android operating systems. MediaMonkey for Windows (sometimes noted as MMW) include ...
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SoX
Sox most often refers to:
* Boston Red Sox, an MLB team
* Chicago White Sox, an MLB team
* An alternate spelling of socks
Sox may also refer to:
Places
* SOX, Sogamoso Airport's IATA airport code, an airport in Colombia
Computing and technolo ...
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VLC Media Player
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desk ...
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Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Sinc ...
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WMA Convert
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XMedia Recode
XMedia Recode is a freeware video and audio transcoding program for Microsoft Windows developed by Sebastian Dörfler. It can import and export many types of files such as WMV, MP4, MP3, 3GP, Matroska and more. XMedia Recode can convert unprotect ...
See also
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Comparison of free software for audio
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List of music software
This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, ...
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Audio conversion software